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A political nobody just three years ago, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is the first official candidate vying for the Republican Party's 2016 presidential nomination. His was a noisy entrance into government, marked by outspokenness and partisanship that clearly delighted part of the public even as they irritated many of his colleagues. In a remarkably short period, Cruz has become a national figure — and one who is often misunderstood. Here are five myths about Ted Cruz. 1. Ted Cruz is anti-establishment. Cruz earned his iconoclastic cred in part by not waiting in line for his turn to run for high office and in part by refusing to play the quiet, unnoticed freshman in the Senate. He...

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A political nobody just three years ago, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is the first official candidate vying for the Republican Party's 2016 presidential nomination. His was a noisy entrance into government, marked by outspokenness and partisanship that clearly...

A scion of a famously rich and well-connected family goes to a fancy prep school. Partying with his friends and neglecting his studies, he almost gets kicked out. But he eventually grows up and goes on to a successful career in politics.
John...

HARTFORD — Republican Tom Foley has been out of the headlines for nearly three months, returning to private life in Greenwich after losing a bitter governor's race to incumbent Dannel P. Malloy.
But Foley re-emerged on the political scene last week to...

This cartoon started out to be only about Sarah Palin. Funny how she hibernates until an election year approaches. It’s probably the media’s fault. She’s probably out every week giving speeches and entertaining her fans (and she is an entertainer, not a...

This is the President Obama I’ve been waiting for. If I’m guessing correctly, this new President Obama will stop trying to get along with those intransigent tea partiers and do what he has to do to get something done in the next two years. I’ve often...

The Boston Olympics? There may be mixed feelings in Boston about The Hub as the Olympic host in 2024, but from Connecticut the prospect looks absolutely delightful.
It's hard to get to places like Sochi, Beijing or Rio de Janeiro. Boston, right up the...

Day One of the new Congress on Tuesday found the Republicans already busy with their promise of entitlement reform. The House passed a rules bill that would prevent reallocating funds in Social Security to keep the disability insurance portion...

Throughout Connecticut's hotly contested race for governor, Republican Tom Foley repeatedly pledged to engage black and Latino voters in the state's largest cities.
"As governor, I’ll have no higher priority than making our cities great again.”...

WEST HARTFORD — Skeleton soldiers have been staging a violent takedown at 115 North Main St., brandishing bloodied spears and hefting decapitated heads.
The scene, "The Fall of Rome," is this year's Halloween display from Matthew Warshauer, a...

Three days before Election Day, Republican gubernatorial nominee Tom Foley courted Latino voters at a rally with former Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuno – marking an effort by the challenger candidate to pick off votes from a community that traditionally...

NORWALK — Polls show that Tom Foley has struggled to connect with women voters, but the Republican candidate for governor is working to close the gender gap.
"This is not a race about issues that matter to women and don't matter to men, or matter to...

In television ads and talking points, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and his supporters have sought to portray Republican rival Tom Foley as a heartless businessman incapable of relating to the concerns of working people.Malloy has accused Foley, who made a...

Of course she’s running. Why wouldn’t she? Because of the right-wing conspiracy against her and her hubby? It didn’t stop her before and it won’t stop her now. It would be worth a Clinton presidency just to drive the conservatives into apoplectic shock....

Going into Thursday's debate, Republican candidate for governor Tom Foley holds the decidedly unglamorous position of being the only viable alternative to an unpopular incumbent, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
Followers of the gubernatorial race (along with...

Last week, a jury found former Gov. John Rowland guilty of violating campaign finance laws. Yet, the example of Rowland breaking the law is not the greatest problem facing our democracy. The influence of big money is. To be a serious candidate for many...

"Twenty-four times" is Thom Tillis' answer, delivered with a faint flicker of a Cheshire Cat smile. The question was: How many times, that his campaign knows of, has Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina said on camera that under...

Again we hear that workers are to blame for a small town, Sprague, losing its paper mill along with 140 jobs [July 31, Connecticut, "Foley Media Event Erupts In Dispute"]. Tom Foley's criticism and blame follows Mitt Romney's same rhetoric when...

Having been in academia for more than 30 years and having been through the process with my own daughters, I understand that many parents and students face daunting decisions regarding college. Where to go? What major to choose?
For many — in fact, for...

The Obama administration is highly exercised about "inversion," the practice by which an American corporation acquires a foreign company and moves its headquarters out of the U.S. to benefit from lower tax rates abroad.
Not fair, says Barack...